Charlie McCreevy,
European Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services and SEC Commissioner Kathleen L. Casey will make keynote speeches. The conference programme also features two sessions of briefings that will re-examine the role of corporate governance in financial systems in the light of current developments and review the policy responses to the current crisis. To conclude the event, a panel will discuss regulatory inconsistencies and tensions between Europe and the United States and whether a common approach across the Atlantic is now desirable or achievable.

Other speakers include: Charles Calomiris, Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, Allen Ferrell, Harvey Greenfield Professor of Securities Law, Harvard Law School, Ronald Gilson, Marc & Eva Stern Professor of Law and Business, Columbia Law School, Gérard Hertig, Professor of Law and Economics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,Jörgen Holmquist, Director General for "Internal Market and Services", European Commission, Ross Levine, James and Merryl Tisch Professor of Economics, Brown University, Colin Mayer, Peter Moores Dean and Professor of Management Studies, Said Business School, University of Oxford, Geoffrey Miller, Stuyvesant P. Comfort Professor of Law, New York University School of Law, Lisa Rabbe,
Managing Director, Goldman Sachs International, Jos Streppel, Member of the Executive and Management Board and Chief Financial Officer, AEGON N.V, Ethiopis Tafara, SEC Director of the Office of International Affairs, Paolo Volpin, Associate Professor of Finance, Institute of Finance and Accounting, London Business School, David Wright,Deputy Director-General for the Internal Market and Services (DG MARKT),
European Commission and Eddy Wymeersch, Chairman, Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR)

The Transatlantic Corporate Governance Dialogue was established in 2004 in order to bring together leading academics from law, economics and finance, regulators, judges, lawmakers, corporate leaders, investors, and other corporate constituencies to engage in forward-looking discussions of corporate governance issues that are or will be at the forefront of policymaking on both sides of the Atlantic. The Dialogue is endorsed by the European Commission. Transcripts of speeches and other remarks at past Dialogues are available at: